Autism in film and television : on the island / / edited by Murray Pomerance and R. Barton Palmer |
Pubbl/distr/stampa | Austin, Texas : , : University of Texas Press, , [2022] |
Descrizione fisica | 1 online resource (337 pages) |
Disciplina | 704.0874 |
Soggetto topico |
Autism in motion pictures
Autistic people Autism on television |
Soggetto non controllato | autism, autism and the media, autism and American culture, autism and American media, neurodiversity, disability, autism spectrum disorder, autism spectrum, film, television studies, film studies |
ISBN |
1-4773-2494-1
1-4773-2493-3 |
Formato | Materiale a stampa |
Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
Lingua di pubblicazione | eng |
Nota di contenuto | Frontmatter -- Contents -- PREFACE Two Meditations -- CHAPTER 1 Autistic Android? The Curious Instance of Star Trek’s Data -- CHAPTER 2 Life, Animated: Adapting a Book about a Hero with Autism -- CHAPTER 3 Where Is the Autism in Rain Man? -- CHAPTER 4 The Good Doctor: Images of Autism and Augmented Intelligence -- CHAPTER 5 Oddity and Catastrophe in The Big Short -- CHAPTER 6 Diagnosing the Detective: Sherlock Holmes and Autism in Contemporary Television -- CHAPTER 7 She’s So Unusual: The Autist in Stranger Things -- CHAPTER 8 Autism, Performance, and Sociality: Isolated Attention in The Social Network -- CHAPTER 9 Hidden Worlds of Female Autism -- CHAPTER 10 Eye Contact in Juárez: Borderline Empathy and the Autistic Detective -- CHAPTER 11 The Creative Evolution and Reception of Netfl ix’s Atypical -- CHAPTER 12 Community’s Human Laugh Track: Neurodiversity in a Metamodern Sitcom -- CHAPTER 13 Portrait of the Autist as a Young Man -- CHAPTER 14 Due Diligence: Exploring ASD in Nightcrawler and The Accountant -- CHAPTER 15 Mind the Gap: Autistic Viewpoint in Film -- CHAPTER 16 Performative Restraint and the Challenges of Empathy in Being There and Phantom Thread -- CHAPTER 17 “A Spoonful of Sugar”: Watching Movies Autistically -- CHAPTER 18 David and Lisa: The Healing Power of the Group -- CHAPTER 19 Jesse: Torture That Autist -- Works Cited and Consulted -- Photo Captions and Credits -- Contributors -- Index |
Record Nr. | UNINA-9910795154603321 |
Austin, Texas : , : University of Texas Press, , [2022] | ||
Materiale a stampa | ||
Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II | ||
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Autism in film and television : on the island / / edited by Murray Pomerance and R. Barton Palmer |
Pubbl/distr/stampa | Austin, Texas : , : University of Texas Press, , [2022] |
Descrizione fisica | 1 online resource (337 pages) |
Disciplina | 704.0874 |
Soggetto topico |
Autism in motion pictures
Autistic people Autism on television |
Soggetto non controllato | autism, autism and the media, autism and American culture, autism and American media, neurodiversity, disability, autism spectrum disorder, autism spectrum, film, television studies, film studies |
ISBN |
1-4773-2494-1
1-4773-2493-3 |
Formato | Materiale a stampa |
Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
Lingua di pubblicazione | eng |
Nota di contenuto | Frontmatter -- Contents -- PREFACE Two Meditations -- CHAPTER 1 Autistic Android? The Curious Instance of Star Trek’s Data -- CHAPTER 2 Life, Animated: Adapting a Book about a Hero with Autism -- CHAPTER 3 Where Is the Autism in Rain Man? -- CHAPTER 4 The Good Doctor: Images of Autism and Augmented Intelligence -- CHAPTER 5 Oddity and Catastrophe in The Big Short -- CHAPTER 6 Diagnosing the Detective: Sherlock Holmes and Autism in Contemporary Television -- CHAPTER 7 She’s So Unusual: The Autist in Stranger Things -- CHAPTER 8 Autism, Performance, and Sociality: Isolated Attention in The Social Network -- CHAPTER 9 Hidden Worlds of Female Autism -- CHAPTER 10 Eye Contact in Juárez: Borderline Empathy and the Autistic Detective -- CHAPTER 11 The Creative Evolution and Reception of Netfl ix’s Atypical -- CHAPTER 12 Community’s Human Laugh Track: Neurodiversity in a Metamodern Sitcom -- CHAPTER 13 Portrait of the Autist as a Young Man -- CHAPTER 14 Due Diligence: Exploring ASD in Nightcrawler and The Accountant -- CHAPTER 15 Mind the Gap: Autistic Viewpoint in Film -- CHAPTER 16 Performative Restraint and the Challenges of Empathy in Being There and Phantom Thread -- CHAPTER 17 “A Spoonful of Sugar”: Watching Movies Autistically -- CHAPTER 18 David and Lisa: The Healing Power of the Group -- CHAPTER 19 Jesse: Torture That Autist -- Works Cited and Consulted -- Photo Captions and Credits -- Contributors -- Index |
Record Nr. | UNINA-9910825583103321 |
Austin, Texas : , : University of Texas Press, , [2022] | ||
Materiale a stampa | ||
Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II | ||
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